Zhongxin Finance, April 19. On April 19, at the press conference on the development of industry and informatization in the first quarter held by the State Council Information Office, Luo Junjie, spokesman for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and director of the Operation Monitoring and Coordination Bureau, said, The development of my country's new energy vehicle industry has achieved positive results. A total of 10.33 million vehicles have been promoted, breaking the 10 million mark.

On April 19, the State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China held a press conference in Beijing. Luo Junjie, spokesperson of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and director of the Operation Monitoring and Coordination Bureau, and Zhao Zhiguo, spokesperson and director of the Information and Communications Administration, introduced the industrial and Information technology development, and answer reporters' questions.

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　　Since the beginning of this year, there has been a good development trend of "accelerating improvement" in market size and development quality.

　　First, the scale of the industry hit a new high.

The cumulative production and sales of new energy vehicles in the first quarter were 1.293 million and 1.257 million respectively, an increase of 1.4 times year-on-year, exceeding the level of the whole year in 2019.

The current market penetration rate has reached 19.3%, an increase of 11.4 percentage points year-on-year, and an increase of 5.9 percentage points over the full year of 2021.

　　Second, Chinese brands are booming.

The cumulative sales of Chinese brand new energy passenger vehicles increased by 1.5 times year-on-year, which was higher than the overall growth rate of the market.

In the total sales of passenger vehicles, Chinese brands accounted for 75.1%, an increase of 2 percentage points over the same period last year.

　　The third is to accelerate the application of new technologies and new models.

Driven by the demonstration operation of fuel cell vehicles, the pilot of new energy vehicle battery swap mode and the support of relevant policies, the cumulative production and sales of fuel cell vehicles increased by 7.2 times and 3.9 times year-on-year respectively. 82%.

　　The fourth is to accelerate the construction of charging and replacing infrastructure.

We have built a total of 492,000 charging piles of various types, a year-on-year increase of 3.6 times, including 85,000 public charging piles and 407,000 private charging piles, a year-on-year increase of 1 and 5 times respectively; 154 battery swap stations were built, a year-on-year increase of 1.6 times .

We should also see that the industrial development is also facing challenges such as the impact of the epidemic, rising prices of raw materials, and shortage of chips. The stable operation is still under great pressure, and it requires joint efforts from all walks of life to solve it.

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